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This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.